Why star AI researcher Timnit Gebru left Google

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Why star AI researcher Timnit Gebru left Google

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Last week Google allegedly pushed out one of their high-profile employees, an AI ethics researcher named Timnit Gebru. Recode’s Shirin Ghaffary explains what we know about the controversy and why it’s causing concern within the tech community.
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